Elizabeth Scot(t) (17 July 1729 – 1789), born Elizabeth Rutherford, was an eighteenth-century Scottish poet who composed stanzas from a young age.
Biography
Elizabeth was born 17 July 1729 in
Edinburgh
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Scotland
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, the daughter of Alice Watson and advocate David Rutherford. Her aunt
Alison Cockburn was also a poet
[ and she was encouraged to write by the Scottish poet ]Allan Ramsay Allan Ramsay may refer to:
*Allan Ramsay (poet) or Allan Ramsay the Elder (1686–1758), Scottish poet
*Allan Ramsay (artist) or Allan Ramsay the Younger (1713–1784), Scottish portrait painter
*Allan Ramsay (diplomat) (1937–2022), British diplom ...
.Jedburgh
Jedburgh (; gd, Deadard; sco, Jeddart or ) is a town and former royal burgh in the Scottish Borders and the traditional county town of the historic county of Roxburghshire, the name of which was randomly chosen for Operation Jedburgh in su ...
, Scotland.[
Scot is most known for the poetic epistle titled ‘The Guidwife of Wauchope-house to Robert Burns', which she wrote for Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1787. Burns visited her on his Scottish tour.]Thomas Blacklock
Thomas Blacklock (10 November 1721 – 7 July 1791) was a Scottish poet who went blind in infancy.
Life
He was born near Annan, Dumfriesshire (now Dumfries and Galloway), of humble parentage, and lost his sight as a result of smallpox when s ...
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References
1729 births
1789 deaths
Scottish poets
People from Jedburgh
18th-century Scottish poets
Scottish women poets
18th-century Scottish writers
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